Today's Sports

The St. Catharine College softball team opened the season strong with two wins at Berea last Thursday, but the following day found times tougher as the Patriots were swept in a twin bill at Indiana University Southeast.

The St. Catharine College nine traveled to Shawnee State (Portsmouth, Ohio) Sunday for the opening of Mid-South Conference play.

The Bat Pats ended the cold, damp day with an equally gloomy outlook after being swept by the Bears 4-1 and 8-3.
The losses gave Luther Bramblett’s Patriots a 9-9-1 overall mark, while Shawnee State improved to 10-7.
Carlos Hernandez had three of the six Patriot hits in the opener.
Tim Paxton took the loss, allowing four runs, three earned, and seven hits in five innings.

FRANKFORT — The best golf in Kentucky is now available at the 18 courses operated by the Kentucky Department of Parks. For 2011, the Kentucky Golf Trail is again offering a “trail card” that provides unlimited paid greens fees for the cardholder.

A loss never tastes sweet, but looking back at the Commanderettes’ run to the region is quite revealing.

Washington County started the season 0-5, and left head coach Bernard Smalley scratching his noggin to figure out how to get on track.
Looking back now, we can see that four of those five losses came against three district champions and a district runner-up.
Not a bad bunch to start out 0-5 against.
Skimming down the rest of the schedule, the losses don’t look so bad.

Half of those losses have come against Georgetown College.
The latest defeat came Sunday at the Frankfort Convention Center, when the Tigers were perfect at the foul line in the final minutes to claim the Mid-South Conference tournament by a 79-75 count.
The loss doesn’t signal an end to the Patriots’ season as J.T. Burton’s bunch will travel to Kansas City, Mo., to begin the NAIA D-I National Tournament, starting March 16.

While leading the Commanderettes to their first winning season since 2004-05, sophomore Kenya Turner and junior Shay Yocum have been climbing up the ranks in school history.

Both players entered the 500 career-points club this season, but since then they’ve added some new records.
Turner joined an elite group of Washington County High School girls’ basketball players when she netted 502 points this season.
She becomes the ninth player in school history to notch 500 points or more in a season.
Joining her on that list are: